brianmario/mysql2 — pull request #357 by osheroff (2013-02-28 04:22:14+00:00)
Title: symbolize keys in mysql2_connection sooner

Having troubles with my rails 2.3.x setups and mysql2 -- we're setting the default username to "root" before we symbolize the keys in the hash, so passing in a hash with string keys causes problems.